August Holmgren and Yusuke Takahashi will play each other in the qualifications of the Kobe Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Monday at 1:00 pm on COURT B. In the following paragraphs, you can find the head to head analysis and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is August Holmgren who should win in 2 sets.
As per the initial odds, August Holmgren is the pick to win this match.
August Holmgren -> 1.31
Yusuke Takahashi -> 3.22
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Prediction and head to head August Holmgren vs. Yusuke Takahashi
There is no head to head record between August Holmgren and Yusuke Takahashi since this will be the first time that they will square off in the main tour.
August Holmgren
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 37-25 | 24-12 | 6-6 | 7-7 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 46-26 | 33-14 | 9-6 | 4-6 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 31-12 | 18-4 | 10-5 | 3-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 19-8 | 12-6 | 7-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 0-1 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 392, the Dane reached the qualifications after defeating Omni Kumar 6-2 6-3.
In the qualifications, The Dane had a good straight sets win against Kumar (6-2 6-3). During the match, Holmgren scored 67 points vs Kumar’s 48. Holmgren was pretty aggressive to blast 20 winners.
Talking about the service games, Holmgren bagged 7 aces and he committed only 6 double faults. August Holmgren lost the serve twice and he saved 1 break points. Furthermore, Holmgren put 52% of his first serves in, winning 83% (20/24) of the points behind his 1st serve and 41% (9/22) on the 2nd serve. Holmgren broke Kumar 6 times after converting 55% of his break points (6/11).
Holmgren has a solid record in the last 7 years having won 67% of his matches (127-63). 2-5 on indoor hard courts in 2023. Talking about his performance on the same surface of this competition, Holmgren has an overall6-8 match record in the last 7 years on indoor hard courts.
The Dane’s best result of the year was getting to the final in M25 Nottingham and M25 Harlingen.
The Dane has an aggregate 38-23 win-loss record in 2023, 2-5 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Kobe Challenger
Holmgren has never competed in this tournament before.
Yusuke Takahashi
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 31-28 | 25-25 | 0-0 | 6-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 37-31 | 33-28 | 0-0 | 4-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 17-22 | 17-21 | 0-0 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 19-23 | 18-21 | 0-0 | 1-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 4-3 | 1-1 | 0-0 | 3-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 467, Yusuke reached the qualifications after defeating Philip Sekulic 6-2 4-1 ret..
In the qualifications against Sekulic, the Japanese had a free pass after Sekulic retired on a 6-2 4-1 . scoreline.
Takahashi’s best result of the current year was reaching the final in M25 New Delhi and M25 Astana.
The Japanese has an aggregate 35-28 win-loss record in 2023, 4-2 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Kobe Challenger
Previously, his best result was reaching the 1st round in 2016, 2017 and 2019. See his history.
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Holmgren | Takahashi |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 1 |
| Tot Set | 2 | 3 |
| Tot Games | 17 | 13 |
| Pts | 67-48 | 51-29 |
| Total Points | 115 | 80 |
| Winners | 20 | 17 |
| %Winners | 30% | 33% |
Both Holmgren and Takahashi played 1 match. Also both players started their run from the qualifications.Both players have not dropped a single set in this event so far. Holmgren has played 1 set(s) less than Takahashi (2 vs 3). However, it’s interesting to notice that Holmgren played 4 games more than Takahashi. August scored 20 winners (30% of the total points). On the other side, The Japanese fired 17 winners (33%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Holmgren | Takahashi |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 7 | 3 |
| Avg per match | 7 | 3 |
| 1st in | 24/46 | 20/30 |
| %1st in | 52% | 67% |
| 1st pts | 20/24 | 17/20 |
| %1st pts | 83% | 85% |
| 2nd pts | 9/22 | 8/10 |
| %2nd pts | 41% | 80% |
Holmgren recorded 7 aces . Takahashi managed to score 3 aces . Holmgren won 83% points behind his first serve. He pretty effective on his second serve to win 41% of the points. On the other side, Takahashi won 85% of the points on his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 80% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Holmgren | Takahashi |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 6 | 4 |
| Converted | 6/11 | 4/10 |
| % Converted | 55% | 40% |
| Conceded | 3 | 0 |
| Saved | 1 | 0 |
| % Saved | 33% | 0% |
| Times Broken | 2 | 0 |
The Dane broke his opponent 6 times with a 55% conversion rate. The Dane conceded his serve twice and he saved 33% of the break points that he conceded. Yusuke broke his opponent 4 times with a 40% conversion rate. Yusuke was rock solid on his serve as he has never conceded a single service game after saving 0 break points.
| Holmgren | |||
| Q1 Kumar |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-2 6-3 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 17 | 17 | |
| pts | 67-48 | 67-48 | |
| Total points | 115 | 115 | |
| Winners | 20 | 20 | |
| %Winners | 30% | 30% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 7 | 7 | |
| Double Faults | 6 | 6 | |
| 1st in | 24/46 | 24/46 | |
| % 1st in | 52% | 52% | |
| 1st pts | 20/24 | 20/24 | |
| % 1st pts | 83% | 83% | |
| 2nd pts | 9/22 | 9/22 | |
| % 2nd pts | 41% | 41% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 6 | 6 | |
| Converted | 6/11 | 6/11 | |
| Converted % | 55% | 55% | |
| Conceded | 3 | 3 | |
| Saved | 1/3 | 1 | |
| Saved % | 33% | 33% | |
| Times Broken | 2 | 2 | |
| Takahashi | |||
| Q1 Sekulic |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-2 4-1 ret. | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 13 | 13 | |
| pts | 51-29 | 51-29 | |
| Total points | 80 | 80 | |
| Winners | 17 | 17 | |
| %Winners | 33% | 33% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 3 | 3 | |
| Double Faults | 0 | 0 | |
| 1st in | 20/30 | 20/30 | |
| % 1st in | 67% | 67% | |
| 1st pts | 17/20 | 17/20 | |
| % 1st pts | 85% | 85% | |
| 2nd pts | 8/10 | 8/10 | |
| % 2nd pts | 80% | 80% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 4 | 4 | |
| Converted | 4/10 | 4/10 | |
| Converted % | 40% | 40% | |
| Conceded | 0 | 0 | |
| Saved | 0/0 | 0 | |
| Saved % | – | 0% | |
| Times Broken | 0 | 0 | |
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